Hans Magnus Enzensberger

“The media are mute, not because they are evil, but because of their structure.”

“To be German is to be all alone in the world.”

“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

“Mistrust those who are sure of everything.”

“Every one of us is a theorist. We have to be, to survive.”

“Luxury is the opposite of vulgarity.”

“What is written in the stars? That you are mortal.”

“The class struggle is not a key concept. It is a slogan that has been made into a pseudo-concept.”

“There is no such thing as a 'mass' of people. There are only ways of seeing people as a mass.”

“The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.”

“Progress is a prison, a labyrinth from which there is no escape.”

“Every thought is a betrayal.”

“The tourist is a spoiler of the landscape. He is the one who destroys what he is looking for.”